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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow. You need a labor support doula to help be a voice for you, especially in situations like yours. Inducing at 39 weeks is not ok. [/quote]

No reputable doula would challenge an OB or any other medical staff in an L&D ward.  If they did, they would not be invited to come back and provide their services.  I used an excellent doula, and she makes very clear up front that she is not a medical care provider and she will not speak directly to hospital staff on my behalf.  When, after a long labor, the topic of induction came up, we did talk to her privately about our options.  Based on that conversation, we spoke directly to the L&D staff and decided to wait a little bit longer before starting pitocin...and ended up delivering without it.  Our doula was helpful in sorting out information, but she would never have intervened on our behalf.[/quote]

well it is good she didn't interfere directly. But a doula who counseled the mother not to trust her doctor especially in a true high risk situation would still be interfering. in retrospect I am very glad my overly crunchy doula was not there when the decision was made to induce. [/quote]

Doulas are not supposed to intervene, but they are helpful with coming up with questions for their clients to ask, just as OP is doing now with this thread.[/quote]

But if you get a doula with an agenda then those questions will be biased and based on an agenda. Is there a reason a patient should be having a non-medical professional come up with questions about their care anyway? My friend is just finishing up a kidney transplant, for example, and it would be a kind of bizarre concept to hire a lay person to help ask medical questions about kidneys ...[/quote]

A doula is not a lay person when it comes to birth, FFS.
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